Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-27

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least If the eXcitemenIs, 10 give nc
couri for every thought, word, action.
Dref renee and disllke--that man is
mad who has no religious preference.
Bat oar early education, physical
temperament, u mental constitution,
viii very much decide our form of
worship. A style of psalmody that
may please me may displease you.
Some would like to have q minister in
gown and bonds, and surplice, ana
others prefer 70 have Q minister in
plain citizens apparel. rsSome are
most impressed when "A little child is
presented at the altar aud s%prinkled OF
the waters of n holy benediction .'ip
the name of the Father, and of the
Son.ssand of the Holy Ghost id 9TH
! ers are more impressed when the pen
itent comes up out of the river. his
garments dripping with the waters OF
Il baptism which signifies the washing
away of sin. Let either have his own
way. One man likes no noise in
prayer, not q word, not a whisper.
Another man, just as good, prefers 10y
| g~esticulation and exclamation to ex-
press his devotional aspirations. One
- just as good as the other. EVERY
man fully persuaded in his own
mind"
RELIGIOUS TOLERATION.
George Whttiield was going over a
quaker rather roughly for some of his
religious sentiments, and the quaker
said: George, | am as thou art; |
am for bringing all men TO the hope of
the gospel; therefore, if thou will not
quarrel with me about my broad brim,
| will not quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. George, give me thy
band -
/, In tracing out the religion of sec
tarianism Oh bigotry, | find that IA great
deal OF 1t comes from wrong education
in the home circle. There are parents
who do not think it wrong to carica-
tdre and jeer the peculiar forms of re-
ligion in the world, and denounce
other sect5 and other denominations.
II is very often the case that that kind
Of education acts just opposite to what
was expected. and the children grow
up, and after awhile, 60 and see for
themselves; and looking in those
churches. and feeling that the people
are good there and they love God and
keep His commandments, by natural
reaction they 20 aus ioin these very
churches. ! could mention the names
OF prominent ministers of the gospel
who spent their whole life bombarding
other denominations and who lived TO
see their children preach the gospel in
those very denominations. Bat it is
often the ease that bigotry starts in "A
household, and that the subject of it
never RECEIVERS. There are tens of
thousands Of bigots ten years old.
think sectarianism and bigotry
also rise from too great prominence of
any denomination in a community.
All the other denominations are wrong,
and his denomination is right because
ms denomination is the most wealthy.
or the most popular, or he most in
Guential, and ii is our church and
''our" religious organization, and
''our" choir, and our minister, and
the man losses his head, and wants
other denominations TO know their
places. 1t is n great deal better in any
community when the great denomina-
tons of
CHRISTIANS
are about equal in power, marching
side by side for the worlds conquest.
Mere outside prosperity, mere worldly
power, Is nc evidence That the church
is acceptable to God. Better a barn
with Christ in the man. orthan a cathe-
drai with magnificent harmOnies roll
ing through the long-dra"n aisles, and
IN angel from heaven in the pulpit, if
there be no Christ in the chancel, and
no Christ in the robes. Bigotry is
often the child of ignorance.
You seldom find II man with a large
intellect who is a bigot. 1t is the man
VINO thinks he knows a great deal, but
does not. That man is almost always
"a bigot. The whole tendency Of edu-
cation and civilization is to bring a
man out of that kind of state OF mind
and heart. There was in the far east
n great obelisk, and one side of the OBJ
elisk was white, another side Of the OBJ
elisk was green, another side of the
obelisk was blue. and travellers went
and looked at that obelisk, but they
did not walk around it One man
looked at one side, another at another
side. AID they came home, each one
looking only at n side; and they hap
pened to meet, the story says, and
they got into 4 rank quarrel about the
color of that ObeliSk. One man said
il was white, another man said it was
green, another man said it was blue.
and when they were in the very heat OF
the controversy a more intelligent
| traveller came, and said: Gentlemen,
| have seen that obelisk. and you are
all right, and you are all wrong. Why
didn't you walk all around the ODE
ljskp'
A WARNING AGAINST SECTARIANISM.
Loak out for the man who sees only
one side ~ a religious truth. Look out
for the man who neyer walks arnund
about those great theories 81 God ard
eternity aud the dead. He wild be a
bigot jnevitably-the man who only
sees one SIDE. There is no maj more
to be piti.d than he who has in his
head inst one idea-no more, no less.